"It is all too easy to slide from a case of genuine military necessity," the chief justice wrote in "All the Laws But One" (Knopf, 1998) "to one where the threat is not critical and the power either dubious or nonexistent". The Roman legal maxim, "inter arma silent leges" -- in time of war, the law is silent -- still has relevance, he wrote.
Visitors shop as in any other store (both spaces are attractive-looking boutiques); items are genuine practical necessities but also highly emotionally charged by virtue of their ordinariness, so heartbreakingly relatable in their humanity.
Our last genuine defensive "war of necessity" was the one Declared by Congress on Dec. 8, 1941.
There are fine exceptions, of course, books whose pieces are linked not by mere repetition of the protagonist but by genuine artfulness and imaginative necessity: Joan Silber's splendid new "Ideas of Heaven," for example, in which the smallest wisp of one story will, in the next, sometimes blaze to full, unexpected life.
"But it reflects the secretary general's genuine personal belief in the necessity of a multinational force".
This debt sometimes causes students to select employment based on financial necessity rather than genuine interest.
Now, with the group's increasing success, participation has shifted from a vital necessity to a genuine desire on the group's behalf.
As our world becomes more interdependent and more complex, the necessity to make genuine progress through dialogue, commitment and investment is further increased.
The fact that the NGOs -- supposedly the engines of the civil society -- were implicated in the corruption allegations is also another source of concern, underlining the necessity for strengthening genuine and progressive civil society organizations.
"Apart from a genuine openness to the possible necessity of distrust, benign and unconditional trust appears to be an extremely dangerous strategy for managing social relations" (Lewicki et al 1998).
Everything I learned while writing a biography of Obama tells me that a belief in civility, his capacity for hearing out the opposition, his belief in the necessity of compromise, is genuine and deeply ingrained in him.
